Deaths in May 1996
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The following is a list of notable deaths in May 1996.
Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:
- Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.
May 1996
1
- Herbert Brownell, 92, American politician, cancer.[1]
- Billy Byers, 69, American jazz trombonist and arranger.[2]
- François Chalais, 76, French journalist, leukemia.
- Jim Gleeson, 84, American baseball player (Cleveland Indians, Chicago Cubs, Cincinnati Reds).[3]
- Eric Houghton, 85, English football player and manager.[4]
- David M. Kennedy, 90, American diplomat, cardiovascular disease.[5]
- Luana Patten, 57, American actress (Song of the South, Johnny Tremain, Joe Dakota), respiratory failure.[6]
2
- Emile Habibi, 74, Palestinian-Israeli writer and communist politician, cancer.[7]
- Pinky Jorgensen, 81, American baseball player (Cincinnati Reds).[8]
- Danny Kamekona, 60, American actor (The Karate Kid Part II, Problem Child, Honeymoon in Vegas).
- María Luisa Ponte, 77, Spanish actress.
- Tony Romeo, 58, American football player (Dallas Texans, Boston Patriots).[9]
- Henri Rust, 89, Dutch film editor.
- Douglas Houghton, Baron Houghton of Sowerby, 97, British politician.[10]
- Eugen Wiesberger Jr., 62, Austrian Olympic wrestler (1956, 1960, 1964).[11]
3
- Guy Casaril, 62, French film director.[12]
- Jimmy Everett, 87, American baseball player.[13]
- Donald G. Fink, 84, American engineer.[14]
- Tim Gullikson, 44, American tennis player and coach, brain cancer.[15]
- Anna Jordaens, 68, Belgian Olympic gymnast (1948).[16]
- Alex Kellner, 71, American baseball player (Philadelphia/Kansas City Athletics, Cincinnati Redlegs, St. Louis Cardinals).[17]
- Hermann Kesten, 96, German writer.[18]
- Detlev Kittstein, 52, German Olympic field hockey player (1968, 1972).[19]
- Patsy Montana, 87, American country music singer-songwriter.[20]
- Ray Stevens, 60, American professional wrestler, heart attack.
- Jack Weston, 71, American actor (Dirty Dancing, The Thomas Crown Affair, The Ritz), lymphoma.[21]
- Keith Daniel Williams, 48, American murderer, execution by lethal injection.[22]
4
- Jean Crépin, 87, French Army officer during World War II, the First Indochina War and the Algerian War.[23]
- Roy Cullinan, 63, Australian rules footballer.[24]
- Edward E. Haddock, 84, American politician.
- Gus Keriazakos, 64, American baseball player (Chicago White Sox, Washington Senators, Kansas City Athletics).[25]
- Eduardo Franco Raymundo, 62, Spanish chess player.[26]
5
- Gaëtan Duval, 65, Mauritian politician.[27]
- Earl Hastings, 72, Canadian politician, member of the Senate of Canada (1966-).[28]
- David Lasser, 94, American writer and political activist.[29]
- Rodney M. Love, 87, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives (1965–1967).[30]
- Jokūbas Minkevičius, 75, Lithuanian politician.
- Roy O'Donnell, 88, Australian rules footballer.[31]
- Ai Qing, 86, Chinese poet.[32]
- Salli Terri, 73, Canadian-American singer and arranger.[33]
- Włodzimierz Zawadzki, 84, Polish Olympic rower (1936).[34]
- Charles H. Zimmerman, 88, American aeronautical engineer.[35]
6
- Donald T. Campbell, 79, American psychologist and scholar.[36]
- Geoffrey S. Dawes, 78, British fetal physiologist.
- Ed Love, 85, American animator.[37]
- Hamlet Mkhitaryan, 33, Soviet/Russian football player, brain cancer.
- Wally Nightingale, 40, British musician, drug-related illness.
- Suzanne Ridgeway, 78, American film actress.
- Leo Joseph Suenens, 91, Belgian Roman Catholic cardinal, thrombosis.[38]
- Ko van Tongeren, 82, Dutch Olympic canoeist (1936).[39]
7
- William Copley, 77, American painter, writer, and gallerist.
- Sigurður Jónsson, 37, Icelandic Olympic alpine skier (1976, 1980).[40]
- Don McNeill, 88, American radio personality.[41]
- Albert Meltzer, 76, British anarchist.[42]
- Narciso G. Reyes, 82, Filipino diplomat and author.
- José Lázaro Robles, 72, Brazilian football player.
- Howard Smith, 76, British diplomat.
- Draško Vilfan, 82, Slovenian Olympic swimmer (1936).[43]
8
- Beryl Burton, 58, English racing cyclist, heart attack.[44]
- Serge Chermayeff, 95, Russian-British architect, industrial designer, and writer.[45]
- Luis Miguel Dominguín, 69, Spanish bullfighter, cerebral hemorrhage.[46]
- Robert Geib, 84, Luxembourgish Olympic football player (1936).[47]
- Ludwig Hoelscher, 88, German composer, musician and music educator.[48]
- Bill Naito, 70, American businessman, civic leader and philanthropist, cancer.
- Emy Pettersson, 87, Swedish Olympic sprinter (1928).[49]
- Celedonio Romero, 83, Spanish musician.[50]
- Karl Ullrich, 85, German SS officer during World War II.
- Garth Williams, 84, American children's illustrator.[51]
9
- Khaptad Baba, 116, Nepalese spiritual saint.
- Lu Dingyi, 89, Chinese politician.
- Carl Fallberg, 80, American cartoonist and artist.[52]
- Gustave Gingras, 78, Canadian physician.
- Calvin Waller, 58, United States Army lieutenant general, complications from a heart attack.[53]
10
- Jože Babič, 79, Slovenian filmmaker.
- Margaret Bell, 79, Canadian high jumper and Olympian (1936).[54]
- Poul Borum, 61, Danish poet and writer.
- Ronald Bush, 87, New Zealand sportsman.[55]
- Joe Holden, 82, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies), manager and scout.[56]
- Alex Newkirk, 79, American baseball player.[57]
- Ethel Smith, 93, American organist.
- Curt Teichert, 91, German-American palaeontologist and geologist.[58]
- Don John Young, 85, American district judge (United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio).[59]
11
- Nnamdi Azikiwe, 91, President of Nigeria.[60]
- Ademir de Menezes, 73, Brazilian football player and manager.
- Col Geelan, 69, Australian rugby league footballer and coach.[61]
- Kurao Hiroshima, 67, Japanese long-distance runner and Olympian (1956, 1960).[62]
- Øivind Johannessen, 71, Norwegian football player.
- Bob Pfohl, 69, American football player (Baltimore Colts).[63]
- Sam Ragan, 80, American poet.[64]
- Vittorio Sala, 77, Italian screenwriter and film director.[65]
- Princess Maria de los Dolores of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, 86, Sicillian princess.[66]
- Mikheil Tumanishvili, 75, Soviet theatre director.
- Merrill B. Twining, 93, United States Marine Corps general.[67]
- Ivan Vyshnevskyi, 39, Ukrainian football player, melanoma.[68]
- Margaret Wright, 76, American politician and community activist.
- Notable Americans killed in the plane crash of ValuJet Flight 592:
- Rodney Culver, 26, American football player (Indianapolis Colts, San Diego Chargers).[69]
- Walter Hyatt, 46, singer and songwriter.
- Candi Kubeck, 35, airline pilot.[70]
- Notable climbers killed in the 1996 Mount Everest disaster[71]
- Scott Fischer, 40, American mountaineer.
- Rob Hall, 35, New Zealand mountaineer.
- Yasuko Namba, 47, Japanese businesswoman.
- Andy Harris, 31, New Zealand mountain guide.
12
- Ghazaleh Alizadeh, 47, Iranian poet and writer, suicide.
- Richard Kendall Brooke, 66, South African ornithologist.
- Max Carlos, 60, Australian Olympic boxer (1956).[72]
- Chang Eun-kyung, 44, South Korean Olympic judoka (1976).[73]
- Homer Keller, 81, American composer of contemporary classical music.[74]
- Stan Priddy, 75, American Olympic ice hockey player (1948).[75]
- Mohamed Abdel Rahman, 81, Egyptian fencer and Olympian (1936, 1948, 1952).[76]
- Martin Roman, 86, German jazz pianist.[77]
13
- Fred Barnes, 75, Australian rules footballer.[78]
- Harry Hyde, 71, American NASCAR crew chief, myocardial infarction.
- William Hughes Mulligan, 78, American judge.[79]
- Morris Edward Opler, 89, American anthropologist.[80]
- Chaim Menachem Rabin, 80, Israeli linguist.[81]
14
- Marian Barone, 72, American gymnast and Olympian (1948, 1952).[82]
- Vera Chapman, 98, British writer.
- Edward Gurney, 82, American attorney and politician.[83]
- Jan Hertl, 67, Czech football player.[84]
- Sridharan Jeganathan, 44, Sri Lankan cricket player.[85]
- Henry Norrström, 78, Swedish Olympic long-distance runner (1952).[86]
- Ludwig Preiß, 85, German politician.[87]
- Dick Randall, 70, American filmmaker.
- Adone Stellin, 75, Italian association football player and Olympian (1948).[88]
- Kumi Sugai, 77, Japanese painter, sculptor and printmaker.
- Antero Tukiainen, 80, Finnish Olympic rower (1952).[89]
- Usilaimani, 62, Tamil actor.
- Leopold Šťastný, 84, Czechoslovak soccer player and coach.
15
- Nordine Ben Ali, 76, Algerian-French football player and manager.[90]
- Charles B. Fulton, 86, American district judge (United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida).[91]
- Javier del Granado, 83, Bolivian writer.
- Iosif Matusec, 89, Romanian Olympic gymnast (1936).[92]
- Newt V. Mills, 96, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives (1937–1943).[93]
- Paul Nogier, 87, French neurologist and physician.[94]
- Virgil Walter Ross, 88, American animator.
- Eric Thompson, 68, British cyclist and Olympian (1956, 1960).[95]
16
- Danilo Alvim, 75, Brazilian football player and manager, pneumonia.[96]
- Jeremy Michael Boorda, 56, American admiral, suicide.[97]
- Claude Gordon, 80, American trumpeter, band director, educator, and author, cancer.[98]
- Olga Madar, 80, American labor unionist.[99]
17
- Scott Brayton, 37, American open-wheel racing driver, racing accident.
- Willis Conover, 75, American radio producer, lung cancer.[100]
- Mary Haas, 86, American linguist.[101]
- Rusi Modi, 71, Indian cricket player.
- Nick Origlass, 88, Australian Trotskyist politician.[102]
- Johnny "Guitar" Watson, 61, American musician and singer-songwriter, myocardial infarction.[103]
18
- Czesław Bobrowski, 92, Polish politician and economist.
- Mario Braggiotti, 90, American pianist, composer and raconteur.[104]
- Dawee Chullasapya, 81, Thai Air Force air marshal.
- Chet Forte, 60, American television director and sports radio talk show host, heart attack.[105]
- Kevin Gilbert, 29, American musician, accidental asphyxiation.
- Yosef Porat, 86, German-Israeli chess player.
- T. B. Werapitiya, 71, Sri Lankan cricket player.[106]
19
- John Beradino, 79, American baseball player and actor, pancreatic cancer.[107]
- Herbert Büchs, 82, German Air Force officer.
- Jake Ford, 50, American basketball player (Seattle SuperSonics).[108]
- Hideji Hōjō, 93, Japanese author, novelist, and playwright.
- Janaki Ramachandran, 72, Indian actor and politician, cardiac arrest.
- Margaret Rawlings, 89, English actress.[109]
- Charles Verlinden, 89, Belgian medievalist.
- Zygmunt Ziembiński, 75, Polish legal philosopher and logician.
20
- Bimal Bose, 77, Indian cricketer.[110]
- Noè Cruciani, 33, Italian Olympic boxer (1984).[111]
- Jean-Jacques Delbo, 87, French actor.[112]
- Dean Harens, 75, American actor.
- Bill Kempling, 75, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada (1972–1993).[113]
- Filiberto Manzo, 66, Mexican Olympic basketball player (1952).[114]
- Jon Pertwee, 76, English actor, comedian, cabaret performer and TV presenter, heart attack.[115]
- Janez Vidic, 73, Slovene painter and illustrator.
21
- Vladimir Belyakov, 78, Soviet Olympic gymnast (1952).[116]
- Paul Delph, 39, American musician.
- Raffaele di Paco, 87, Italian road racing cyclist.[117]
- Karl Hoffmann, 81, German Indologist.
- Arvo Huutoniemi, 82, Finnish Olympic discus thrower (1948, 1952).[118]
- Fernando Volio Jiménez, 71, Costa Rican politician.
- Lash LaRue, 78, American actor, pulmonary emphysema.[119]
- Fritz Ligges, 57, German Olympic equestrian (1964, 1972, 1984), heart attack.[120]
22
- Robert Christie, 82, Canadian actor and director.
- Émile Frantz, 86, Luxembourgian Olympic wrestler (1928).[121]
- Cuthbert Hurd, 85, American computer scientist and entrepreneur.[122]
- Seymour H. Knox III, 70, American sports executive.
- Veikko Lavi, 84, Finnish singer, songwriter and writer.[123]
- Maurice Piot, 83, French Olympic fencer (1952).[124]
- Rex Rogers, 79, Australian cricketer.[125]
- George H. Smith, 73, American writer.
- Wong Peng Soon, 78, Malaysian badminton player, pneumonia.
23
- Abu Ubaidah al-Banshiri, 46, Egyptian al-Qaeda leader, drowned.
- Patrick Cargill, 77, English actor, brain cancer.[126]
- Dorothy Hyson, 81, American actress, stroke.[127]
- Sim Iness, 65, American Olympic discus thrower (1952).[128]
- Evert Karlsson, 75, Swedish ski jumper and Olympian (1948).[129]
- Bernhard Klodt, 69, German football player, heart attack.[130]
- Kronid Lyubarsky, 62, Soviet dissident, heart attack.
- Tanju Okan, 57, Turkish recording artist and singer, cirrhosis.
- Peter Pasetti, 79, German actor, cancer.
- Yevgeny Rodionov, 19, Russian soldier, execution by beheading.
- Eric Thompson, 68, British cyclist and Olympian (1956, 1960).[131]
24
- John Abbott, 90, English actor.[132]
- Jorge Bolaños, 51, Ecuadorian football player.
- Harry Campion, 91, British statistician and director.
- Thomas Connolly, 86,United States Navy admiral, aviator, gymnast and Olympic medalist (1932).[133]
- José Cuatrecasas, 93, Spanish-American pharmacist and botanist.
- Fred Dhu, 80, Australian rugby league footballer.[134]
- Jacob Druckman, 67, American composer, lung cancer.[135]
- Enrique Álvarez Félix, 62, Mexican actor, heart attack.
- Charley Hall, 71, American baseball player.[136]
- Johan Kraag, 82, President of Suriname.
- Joseph Mitchell, 87, American writer.[137]
- Kshitindramohan Naha, 64, Indian geologist and professor.
- Lois Pereiro, 38, Spanish poet and writer, AIDS-related complications.
- Norman René, 45, American director, AIDS-related complications.[138]
- Roland Varno, 88, Dutch-American actor and secret agent.[139]
25
- Bill Crass, 84, American football player (Chicago Cardinals).[140]
- Arch Dickens, 92, Australian rules footballer.[141]
- Renzo De Felice, 67, Italian historian.[142]
- John Morrison, 1st Baron Margadale, 89, British politician.
- Guy Mazeline, 96, French writer.
- Bradley Nowell, 28, American musician and the lead singer and guitarist of Sublime, opioid overdose.
- Vladimir Ukhov, 72, Russian Olympic racewalker (1952).[143]
- Barney Wilen, 59, French saxophonist.[144]
- Dimitar Yordanov, 66, Bulgarian football player.
26
- Ole Berntsen, 81, Danish Olympic sailor (1948, 1952, 1956, 1964).[145]
- Don Bollweg, 75, American baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals, New York Yankees, Philadelphia/Kansas City Athletics).[146]
- Frank Briante, 91, American football player.[147]
- Haika Grossman, 76, Israeli politician and member of Knesset.
- Gerard Hallock, 90, American Olympic ice hockey player (1932).[148]
- Stefan Jędrychowski, 86, Polish journalist and communist politician.
- Geraldo de Oliveira, 76, Brazilian Olympic jumper (1948, 1952).[149]
- Ovidiu Papadima, 86, Romanian literary critic, folklorist, and essayist.[150]
- Milan Ribar, 66, Yugoslav/Croatian football manager.
- Heije Schaper, 89, Dutch lieutenant general of the Royal Netherlands Air Force and politician.[151]
- Mike Sharperson, 34, American baseball player (Toronto Blue Jays, Los Angeles Dodgers, Atlanta Braves), accident.[152]
27
- George Boolos, 55, American philosopher and mathematical logician, pancreatic cancer.[153]
- Pud Brown, 79, American jazz reed player.[154]
- Aksel Bonde Hansen, 77, Danish Olympic rower (1948).[155]
- Philip B. Healey, 74, American politician.[156]
- Els van den Horn, 69, Dutch Olympic diver (1952).[157]
28
- Walter Brandi, 68, Italian actor.
- Nirmala Devi, 68, Indian film actress and singer.
- George Kojac, 86, American swimmer and Olympic champion (1928).[158]
- Pentti Paatsalo, 63, Finnish Olympic swimmer (1952).[159]
- Rollin Prather, 70, Canadian football player.[160]
- Jimmy Rowles, 77, American jazz pianist, vocalist, and composer.[161]
29
- Jennings Lang, 81, American actor, pneumonia.[162]
- Isidro Maiztegui, 90, Argentinian composer.
- Antonín Mrkos, 78, Czech astronomer.
- Robert Nichol, 72, Scottish cricketer.[163]
- Hrant Shahinyan, 72, Soviet/Armenian gymnast and Olympian (1952).[164]
- Jeremy Sinden, 45, British actor, lung cancer.
- Tamara Toumanova, 77, Russian ballet dancer.[165]
30
- John Cameron, Lord Cameron, 96, Scottish judge.[166]
- Heather Canning, 63, English actress.
- William Dally, 88, American Olympic rower (1928).[167]
- Léon-Étienne Duval, 92, French catholic prelate and cardinal.[168]
- François Genoud, 80, Swiss Nazi collaborator, suicide.[169]
- John Kahn, 48, American bass guitarist.
- Alo Mattiisen, 35, Estonian composer.
- Arthur "T-Boy" Ross, 47, American singer-songwriter.
- Natividad Vacío, 83, American actor.
31
- Walter C. Beckham, 80, United States Army Air Forces fighter ace and nuclear scientist.
- Don Kerley, 79, Australian rules footballer.[170]
- Ton de Leeuw, 69, Dutch composer.[171]
- Luciano Lama, 74, Italian politician and trade unionist.[172]
- Timothy Leary, 75, American psychologist and writer, prostate cancer.[173]
- Thomas Francis Xavier Smith, 67, American politician, cancer.[174]